Political Press

Three new U.S.-published periodicals made news last week:

> A 50-page monthly picture magazine, En Guardia ("For the Defense of the Americas"), was sent to 80,000 leading citizens of Latin America (special leather-bound copies went to Latin America's 20 Presidents). Publisher: Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Lavish with color plates, fancy printing and paper, the first issue was devoted to picture propaganda for the U.S. Navy--almost as impressive as a visit from the fleet. Later issues will contain less color, more text, will cost U.S. taxpayers less money, but will have impressive picture spreads demonstrating U.S. potency. And 20,000 copies printed in Portuguese will continue to go to Brazilians plus 60,000 copies in Spanish to other Latin Americans.

> La Voix de France, a bi-monthly French newspaper devoted to a worldwide anti-Vichy movement, started with 30,000 copies: 10,000 divided between subscribers and newsstands; 20,000 free copies to high schools and colleges. Said its opening editorial by Adolphe Demilly (onetime French publisher and foreign correspondent in Africa and Spain):

"We are with the France which made great Frenchmen of foreigners, and not with the one which made foreigners of great Frenchmen. . . . We are with England to the very end, to our last drop of blood, because that is the only fitting way to love France and to remain men of French culture."

> Free World, a 120-page English-language monthly, was launched to rally a sort of Democratic International with underground contacts in Nazi-occupied countries. It published three French underground leaflets said to have a circulation of 50,000, told an unpublished story of twelve French pilots who were captured while trying to join De Gaulle; two were sentenced to death, ten to forced labor for life. Now printed only in English, Free World plans editions in Chinese, French, Spanish. Editorial board and contributors read like an anti-Fascist Who's Who: Cordell Hull, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Thompson, Clarence Streit, Eduard Benes, T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Its editor is Carlo a Prato, onetime secretary to Count Carlo Sforza when he was Italy's Foreign Affairs Minister (1920-21), for 20 years Geneva correspondent for the New York Times.

Wanted by both the Gestapo and Mussolini's agents, a Prato escaped a refugee roundup in France by fleeing to Morocco with a false passport. While being examined for the Gestapo list, the examining officer observed: "Why, you look just like this man a Prato." Said coolheaded a Prato: "Why, it is a remarkable resemblance!"

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